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NEW ORLEANS -- A homeless man in New Orleans whose Christmas tree was stolen -- twice -- is feeling the holiday spirit after members of the community replaced the tree.

It started with a simple Christmas tree underneath the Pontchartrain Expressway in New Orleans. Philly, a homeless man, set up a Christmas tree by his blue tent underneath the expressway.

Within a day, battery-power lights were added to the tree by strangers and a bow was tied to the top of it. Then it was stolen twice, according to WGNO.

"When I caught them I grabbed into it and grabbed onto the tree," Philly said. "I don't know if they were instructed to double back and get the tree -- because my tent and everything else -- but they pinpointed just the tree."